English Vocabulary Elements

Keith Denning, Brett Kessler, and William R. Leben

A unique approach to a learned, specialized, and scientific English vocabulary

English Vocabulary Elements

Second Edition

Keith Denning, Brett Kessler, and William R. Leben

Description

This unique text draws on the tools of modern linguistics to help the student acquire an effective understanding of learned, specialized, and scientific vocabulary. English Vocabulary Elements (EVE) helps develop familiarity with over 350 Latin and Greek word elements in English, and shows how these roots are the building blocks within thousands of different words. Along the way the authors introduce and illustrate many of the fundamental concepts of linguistics. Offering a thorough approach to the expansion of vocabulary, EVE is an invaluable resource that provides students a deeper understanding of the language. This book will be useful to upper level high school students, undergraduates in English, Linguistics, and Classics departments, ESL students, and anyone interested in building vocabulary skills.

This edition is refined and thoroughly updated. It includes updated cultural references, and the authors have revised and improved the pedagogy based on classroom experience. In particular they account for variations in pronunciation among students; clarify when historical details are important or peripheral; and improve the many examples and exercises that form the core of the book.

English Vocabulary Elements

Second Edition

Keith Denning, Brett Kessler, and William R. Leben

Table of Contents

Preface1. The Wealth of English2. History of English and Sources of English Vocabulary3. Morphology: Analyzing Complete Works4. Allomorphy5. Phonetics6. Regular Allomorphy: Numeric Elements7. Polysemy and Semantic Change8. Usage and Variation9. Latin and Greek Morphology10. Prehistory of English and the Other Indo-European Languages11. Later Changes from Latin to French to EnglishAppendix I: Elements to GlossesAppendix II: Glosses to ElementsGlossaryFurther Reading and Research ToolsIndex